Which law allows states to apply for "waivers" as related to annual testing?
What is NCLB?
100
States may use a statewide test or measure progress of high school students through use of one of these measures.
What is ACT/SAT?
100
ESSA has "de________" states in multiple ways.
What is "incentivized?"
100
AYP is the acronym for ______
What is adequate yearly progress?
100
______% of students still have to participate in some type of annual assessment system.
What is 95?
200
The full name of the new law that replaces NCLB.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act?
200
This law required annual assessments in grades 3-8 of math and ELA.
What is NCLB?
200
In ESSA, the body that makes decisions about curriculum and assessment has shifted from the __________ to the ___________.
What is federal government and state government?
200
100% student proficiency in math and reading by this year.
What was 2014?
200
Both laws require states to disaggregate data based on race, disability status, and ________.
What is SES?
300
In ESSA, states must identify and intervene the bottom ___% of schools.
What is 5%?
300
In ESSA, states are required to establish goals for these three indices.
What are student achievement, high school graduation rates, and English language proficiency?
300
ESSA seeks to expand preschool by including ____ million dollars in annual funding to early childhood education.
What is 250?
300
Because students were not making the level of progress required in NCLB, the Department of Education granted these to qualified states.
What were waivers or exceptions to the rule?
300
Change may not be readily apparent because 42 states already have _________ in place from the years of NCLB.
What are waivers?
400
In ESSA, total of 10% of the budget from this federal program can be used for school improvement and direct student services.
What is Title I?
400
ESSA allows more innovation in the state assessment system than NCLB did, including these two allowances.
What are locally-designed assessments and use of ACT/SAT at high school in lieu of state assessment?
400
Under ESSA, teachers no longer have to be _________ ________.
What is "highly qualified."
400
NCLB included a SIG that helped states pay for "turning around" schools that missed AYP two years in a row. What does SIG stand for?
What is School Improvement Grant?
400
Both laws are reauthorizations of the ESEA law, passed in what decade?
What is the 1960's (1965 to be exact)?
500
According to ESSA, every ___ years states identify the lowest performing schools.
What is 3?
500
In ESSA, the focus for assessments has shifted from summative to ...
What is formative?
500
States and school districts must intervene in any high school with graduation rates that fall under _____%
What is 67?
500
NCLB was a reauthorization of the ESEA. What does ESEA stand for?
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
500
ESEA was originally passed by Lyndon B. Johnson as part of his __________ __ ___________ campaign, and the focus on providing an equitable education to all students still remains today, even after 8 reauthorizations.